Futuresteading
This is a conversation about the future. About creating a culture that values tomorrow. We reckon a slower, simpler, steadier existence is the first step - one that’s healthier for humans and the planet. We call it Futuresteading. Each week we chat to community builders, ritual makers, food growers, health wizards and environmental wisdom keepers, gathering practical advice and epic solidarity - so we can all nut this thing out together. Join our nitty, gritty, honest and hopeful convo every Monday during our 16 episode seasons. Support the pod by shouting us a cuppa >>> buymeacoffee.com/futuresteading
Futuresteading
S2 E22 This homesteading life with Sarah Stutzman
Come with us to a homesteading, homeschooling farmhouse in Pennsylvania where the days start early and the blessings are abundant.
Grab a yellow chair on the porch (to the tune of morning crickets) and meet Sarah Stutzman, the down-to-earth powerhouse behind Wellfolk Revival, a place to meet belly to belly and up-skill yourself, your kids and your community.
This is one of those rocking chair chats that offers a glimpse into someone else's world; their daily habits and ways of thinking. Their challenges and triumphs. Their personal paradigm.
And even if you don't aspire to be a modern day homesteader, this convo could very well revive whatever latent life dreams you've got hiding in there. Time to action them?
SHOW NOTES
- Raising kids in a “new normal”
- The value of community sufficiency
- What is homesteading?
- Her childhood on a Christmas tree farm surrounded by exotic animals before moving to life in a subdivision
- Accidentally homesteading via a desire to know where her food came from
- Using skills to teach people how to start a garden, grow their food and take baby steps
- Building community
- Resources needed for up-skilling
- Craving community
- Bringing people around the table to learn
- Pivoting business around Covid
- Eating organ meats and head cheese
- Embracing the chaos and imperfection
- Blowing the romance perception and keeping it real
- Be the ripple effect by inviting people to your real house (messy and all) at any time and encouraging them to share their new skills with others
- Getting the kids involved so the foundations to hold them during the rebellion phase are strong
- Letting kids feel their own way and encouraging them to learn through mistakes
- Getting past our own failures, focus on our successes
- Integrating with the local Amish, traditional farmers and new wave of micro farms
- Connecting!
- Reconciling the process of taking life to sustain our own nutritional needs
- Counting the things on your plate that you have a connection to
- Avoiding the throw away mentality
- Using the ENTIRE animal to honour the WHOLE and not just the best parts
- Looking for the blessings in between the constant hard work
- Nourishing our bodies with good food and our minds with beautiful things
- Stopping and embracing the simple moments as a measure of success
- Seeing success through the eyes of a child
- The power of pulling out other people's gifts and talents
- Avoiding the overwhelm of the emergency by doing the small things every day
- Haste makes waste so just make pace
LINKS YOU'LL LOVE
- Wellfolk Revival online + on Instagram